Sagittal segmental alignment as predictor of adjacent-level degeneration after a Cloward procedure

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 674-681

  Faldini, Cesare ^a   Pagkrati, Stavroula ^b   Leonetti, Danilo ^a   Miscione, Maria Teresa ^a   Giannini, Sandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR SPINE FUSION; CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICAL SPINE DEGENERATION; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; LORDOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SPINE; SPINE FUSION;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISKECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; JOINT INSTABILITY; LORDOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SPINE;

EID: 79952995611     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1614-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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